New York Mon Amour

Order any TWO books by Jacques Tardi and receive this FBIMINI comic shown at left as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last.

2013 Eisner Award Nominee: Best U.S. Edition of International Material

2013 Harvey Award Nominee: Best American Edition of Foreign Material

Many years ago, Jacques Tardi was introduced to American audiences with Manhattan, a grim and grimy story of depression, madness and suicide in New York City whose appearance in the premiere issue of RAW magazine was instrumental in defining both that magazines virtuoso aesthetic and its dark sensibility. Three decades later, New York Mon Amour collects Manhattan and three other tales of the Big Apple  rendered by Tardi with just as much panache and you-are-there detail as Paris or the trenches of World War I in his other books  in one spectacular volume.

Aside from Manhattan, the centerpiece of the book is the graphic novel Cockroach Killer, written by Benjamin Legrand. This violent, surreal conspiracy thriller, starring a hapless exterminator named Walter, features a striking two-color black-and-red technique unique in Tardis oeuvre, and remains one of the cartoonists most startling, confounding works. New York Mon Amour is rounded off with two short stories written by Dominique Grange: Its So Hard (starring John Lennon  but not that John Lennon  and never before published in English) and The Killing of Hung (a story of revenge and redemption).

New York Mon Amour is a crucial and unique addition to Fantagraphics acclaimed Tardi collection.

Order any TWO books by Jacques Tardi and receive this FBIMINI comic shown at left as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last.

2013 Eisner Award Nominee: Best U.S. Edition of International Material

2013 Harvey Award Nominee: Best American Edition of Foreign Material

Many years ago, Jacques Tardi was introduced to American audiences with Manhattan, a grim and grimy story of depression, madness and suicide in New York City whose appearance in the premiere issue of RAW magazine was instrumental in defining both that magazines virtuoso aesthetic and its dark sensibility. Three decades later, New York Mon Amour collects Manhattan and three other tales of the Big Apple  rendered by Tardi with just as much panache and you-are-there detail as Paris or the trenches of World War I in his other books  in one spectacular volume.

Aside from Manhattan, the centerpiece of the book is the graphic novel Cockroach Killer, written by Benjamin Legrand. This violent, surreal conspiracy thriller, starring a hapless exterminator named Walter, features a striking two-color black-and-red technique unique in Tardis oeuvre, and remains one of the cartoonists most startling, confounding works. New York Mon Amour is rounded off with two short stories written by Dominique Grange: Its So Hard (starring John Lennon  but not that John Lennon  and never before published in English) and The Killing of Hung (a story of revenge and redemption).

New York Mon Amour is a crucial and unique addition to Fantagraphics acclaimed Tardi collection.